الفيل (الفيل)

1بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ

Alam tara kaifa fa'ala rabbuka bi ashaabil feel

Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?

2أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍۢ

Alam yaj'al kai dahum fee tad leel

Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

3وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ

Wa arsala 'alaihim tairan abaabeel

And He sent against them birds in flocks,

4تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍۢ مِّن سِجِّيلٍۢ

Tar meehim bi hi jaaratim min sij jeel

Striking them with stones of hard clay,

5فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍۢ مَّأْكُولٍۭ

Faja 'alahum ka'asfim m'akool

And He made them like eaten straw.

حول هذه السورة

Al-Fil (The Elephant) is a Meccan surah of 5 verses referring to a historical event around the year of the Prophet's birth (approximately 570 CE), when an Abyssinian army with war elephants attempted to destroy the Kaaba in Mecca. God repelled them by sending flocks of birds that pelted them with stones, making them like eaten straw.